Sunday, February 13, 2011

Two Christmases ago, my Momma and I were out looking for stocking stuffers and while strolling down the baby aisle we saw something called Boudreaux's Butt Paste. The bright yellow packaging must have just caught our eyes as we were scanning for potential little gifts.

We were so tickled at the name of this diaper rash ointment that we thought we must buy it for my brother’s stocking. Just two months earlier my little niece Cupcake was born and my brother had become a new father. Since Cupcake comes from proud Louisianan stock on her mother’s side, a product with “Boudreaux” in the name seemed to fit perfectly. The fact that the Boudreaux was then followed by “butt paste” had my Momma and me giggling like school girls in the middle of the aisle.

(For your information: my brother is quite the jokester and appreciated the Boudreaux's Butt Paste and all the connotations it had. He got many other silly new Dad type items in his stocking that year as I recall like goggles, gloves, and clothes pins for diaper changing - you know the sort of thing.)

Now without divulging too much information about my precious niece and her uh…bottom issues… she turned out to have very sensitive skin. Her poor little bo-bo was rather irritated and no amount of the other name brand diaper rash creams seemed to do anything at all. As an experiment, Cupcake’s parents decided to try the Boudreaux's Butt Paste they had received for Christmas. Cupcake’s rash went away very quickly afterward and there was much rejoicing throughout all the land. So that little tube of joke fodder actually turned out to be rather practical - a practical joke indeed.

If you know any little people with um…bottom issues...and would like a free sample, go to the Boudreaux's Butt Paste website.